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From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.
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About a month into the war with Iran, back when gas was at $3 .99 a gallon, Daily producer Anna Foley headed to Florida to talk to a
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gas station owner about how prices at the pump were feeling both for him and his customers.
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I would love for this to be over next week and I go back to $2 .79 a gallon.
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That'd be awesome.
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So I hope beyond hope that it is temporary and it does not last long.
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But yeah, I do worry about the longevity of high prices.
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That was back in March.
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But recently, and somewhat unexpectedly, that gas station owner, Cam Judy, reached out to us again.
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Hello.
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Hey, Cam.
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Hey, Anna.
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How you doing?
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He had an update.
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so a few days ago you texted me
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because of this kind of wild thing you were seeing happen at your pumps
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so i just want to know what happened tell me the story yeah
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so i checked the gas prices i believe it was wednesday
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i was working until around three o 'clock in the afternoon just checking the prices
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and see what was going on
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and everything seemed normal where were you checking them i was
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checking them on gas buddy the different gas stations see what
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everybody was priced at i was sitting at 3 .99 a gallon for regular gas
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and uh the next day i opened the gas station
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and i was talking to my beer distributor
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and he was like what's your gas at cam and i said
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but i'm still at 3 .99
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and he's like wow all the other gas stations i passed
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by on the way in here all went to 419 this morning
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and i was like there's no way there's no way it
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was 399 yesterday wow that's a a 20 cent jump in
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price overnight that's pretty that's pretty crazy it's pretty shocking
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and i didn't believe him until i again i checked the gas stations in
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and around me and sure enough every single one of them was at four dollars
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and 19 cents for regular gasoline i said wow i i guess I really need to, as much as I don't want to,
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I got to go up 20 cents a gallon.
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Yeah.
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Did customers notice?
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And what did they say to you?
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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I mean, the one phrase out of everybody's mouths were just, what's going on with these gas prices?
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When you guys came down here last time, of course, the conflict over in the Middle East area had just started.
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It was very prominent in the news.
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Everybody was talking about it.
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And it was kind of expected, I think, back then.
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Okay, we got a war going on.
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There's conflict going on.
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Yeah, we're going to see a big jump in gas prices.
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But the war and the conflict over there hasn't really been talked much about lately.
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There's other stuff going on in the news that people are talking about.
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People kind of forgot.
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And that's kind of the hardest part for me is I just, I don't have an answer.
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What specifically caused a 20 -cent increase in a period of 24 hours?
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I just wish, not even as a business owner, as a regular average Joe citizen, I would like to know why.
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I think a lot of my customers would also like to know why.
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So, today on the show, we attempt to answer Cam's question.
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What is driving rising oil prices?
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I speak with my colleague, Vivian Neerheim, about the expanding Iran war and why its ripple effects are being felt at pumps around the world.
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It's Thursday, September 17th.
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Vivian, welcome back to the show.
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Thanks for having me.
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So we here at The Daily have been in touch with this gas station owner in Florida, who I am sure is not the only person who's sort of confused by what he's seeing right now.
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He and many of us understand that this stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz has sent gas prices soaring.
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Like, we all get that by this point in the war.
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But the U .S and Iran have been in a stalemate for months now.
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So we're turning to you to explain to us what has happened on the ground
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that can help explain this sudden surge in prices.
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Yes, I'm talking to you from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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And Saudi Arabia has for a long time been the world's largest exporter of oil.
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You know, if you want to move oil prices, you look to Saudi Arabia.
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And up until this point, Saudi Arabia has largely been on the sidelines of this war.
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Yes, it was getting attacked.
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Yes, things were quite concerning.
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But at the same time, it wasn't getting hit as hard as some of the states east of the Persian Gulf, like the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain.
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You know, I and a lot of other people were kind of sitting here wondering why, to be honest.
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Why was Iran targeting all of these other states and kind of easing up a bit on Saudi Arabia.
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In the past few weeks, all of that has changed.
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Essentially, it's become very clear that one of the reasons that this wasn't happening, that the country wasn't being attacked as heavily as the other Gulf states,
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is that Iran was kind of holding this card and waiting to play it.
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And that is what has happened now, essentially.
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Now they've decided to play that card.
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And what is that card, Vivian?
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Just unspool that for us.
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So Saudi Arabia, it's just on the other side of the Gulf from Iran.
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And they managed to find a workaround during the Iran War because of their geography, because of their history, to get their oil out from another exit point.
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So while the Strait of Hormuz, which is on sort of the eastern side of Saudi Arabia close to Iran, was essentially choked off,
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Saudi Arabia had built a long time ago this gigantic oil pipeline that stretches all the way across the kingdom.
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And this had just been built as a sort of eventuality, maybe someday we'll need this.
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And it suddenly became the moment for this oil pipeline.
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They started pushing as much of their oil as they could
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over land through this pipeline to the Red Sea to get it out to their global customers that way.
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So they had this workaround that none of the other Gulf states had.
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And as a result, the kingdom supply of oil to global markets was much less affected than the other countries.
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But all of that changed over the past few weeks,
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essentially, as Iran's ally in Yemen began focusing its attention on that route and essentially seeking to cut off that route.
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Okay, so fill in the specifics of what has actually happened.
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Right.
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So the group that you really need to understand here is the Houthis, which are an Iranian ally in Yemen.
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So, the Houthis started out as this kind of ragtag, religious movement in northern Yemen,
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and they became these increasingly important power players starting in 2014.
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In the aftermath of this really complicated, failed sort of Arab Spring transition in Yemen, the Houthis swept into Sana 'a,
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the capital of Yemen, and they took it over.
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They essentially routed the internationally recognized government of Yemen, pushed them out of the city, and then continued to actually push them farther and farther south in Yemen.
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That set off this really brutal and grinding civil war in which Saudi Arabia intervened to pretty disastrous consequences in 2015.
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To fight the Houthis.
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To fight the Houthis and to try to restore the internationally recognized government.
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So Saudi Arabia is Yemen's northern neighbor.
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They have this long, porous border with Yemen.
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And they were essentially looking at the Houthis, this militia that's backed by Iran, taking over territory on their border and getting quite nervous.
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So they began this disastrous bombing campaign in Yemen to try to back the government and to essentially push out the Houthis.
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So those two sides were fighting really fiercely it became this really kind of fragmented, complicated civil war.
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And then it reached a sort of stalemate in 2022 when a truce was signed.
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This was backed by the United Nations.
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And fighting had largely quieted down since then.
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But the Houthis were frustrated.
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They really wanted to reach some form of political agreement
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that would recognize their power in Yemen and that would give them access to oil resources, which they do not have right now because of the territory that they control.
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So they were under political pressure to do something.
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And this was sort of the backdrop in which the Iran war kind of arrived in the region and blew everything up.
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Okay.
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In Iran, meanwhile, there had been this faction that was gaining increasing leverage
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that had been pressing to escalate in the war with the U .S., right?
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The war has been dragging on for six months.
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There's no clear end in sight.
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And this sort of group in Iran, group of officials, group of leaders.
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The hardliners.
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We talked about them on the show before.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Wanted to place sort of increasing pressure on Trump via increasing pressure on the global economy, global energy markets.
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So at the same time that the Houthis have their own interests
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that they're pursuing and are feeling increasingly frustrated with the political situation on the ground in Yemen, their backers in Iran have an interest to escalate.
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So there's a real kind of collision of mutual interests between the Houthis and their allies and backers in Iran.
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And how has that played it on the ground exactly?
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Vivian, just explain that to us.
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So it's a complicated story, and there's been a couple of flashpoints where things have really escalated between Saudi Arabia
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and the Houthis over the past few months.
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But one of the really key ones was in July, when the Houthis declared a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia and essentially said, we're not going to let any Saudi ships through the Red Sea.
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And after this blockade is launched.
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You see Saudi Arabia decide to start pushing back, but they seem to be wary of actually entering a full -blown war.
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So you see airstrikes start happening in Yemen.
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The Houthis say Saudi Arabia is bombing Yemen.
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Saudi Arabia says nothing.
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The Yemeni government claims that it's the ones carrying out those bombings.
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And you also see a real escalation in ground fighting between the Houthis and Yemeni fighters who are backed by Saudi Arabia.
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So things start to heat up on the ground in this kind of period after the blockade.
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But for now, nobody seems to want to escalate too much.
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And that all changes essentially when the Houthis start pushing towards the Red Sea coast last week.
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And a new wave of Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia.
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The Houthis taking islands in the Red Sea, taking coastline along the Red Sea.
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The Houthis can now threaten almost any shipping passing Yemen's Red Sea coast.
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So the Houthis start assailing these parts of Yemeni territory that are essentially the gateway to the Bab al -Mandab Strait,
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this very important strait at the opening of the Red Sea.
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And it's clear that they're pushing and pushing.
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But for a time, it seemed like this was going to be a battle.
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It was going to take a while.
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Saudi Arabia was going to fight back.
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And then suddenly, all of that crumbled on Thursday and Friday.
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And government soldiers were retreating incredibly rapidly.
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And the Houthis essentially seized this vast swath of territory along the Red Sea
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that is Yemen's most strategic and important real estate and ended up in control of the Babat Mandib Strait.
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And so not just for important for Yemen, but as you said, they basically seized this workaround
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that Saudi Arabia had that was helping it export its oil since the start of the war.
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Yes.
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So the Houthis were able to launch attacks in the Red Sea from the territory that they previously had.
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But this gives them much more direct control over the strait.
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And then to make matters so much worse, on Friday, the same day that the Houthis have taken over all of this territory that puts them on this key strait,
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Saudi Arabia announces that the crucial cross -land pipeline
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that it has been relying upon to export oil has been attacked and that they have to shut it down.
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The East -West Pipeline is what goes across Saudi Arabia.
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That was sort of the workaround.
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OK, if something happens with the Straits, we got this big, wide pipeline.
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Well, now it's been hit in multiple points.
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It's out.
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The two Straits are controlled by Iran and its militants.
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As of now, essentially all of the exits for oil from the Arabian Peninsula have been severely choked off
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or just cut off.
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And all of this has left Saudi Arabia with basically no good options for getting their oil to global markets.
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And we're already starting to see the impact of that around the world.
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We'll be right back.
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vivian you just told us
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that saudi arabia has no good options to get their oil out of the country
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so what are their bad options so the first thing to remember is
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that this is an existential problem for saudi arabia the entire saudi economy depends on oil
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and petrochemicals Their government budget depends on oil revenue.
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Their payments to royal family members depend on oil revenue.
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So the entire kind of political and economic system of the kingdom is still very much tied up in oil.
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They want that to change, but their efforts to diversify away from oil
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and to turn the kingdom into this tourism
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and business destination also depend on oil revenue because they need to make these investments that are quite costly.
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So if they can't figure out a way to get oil out to global markets, it's a really serious problem for them.
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Okay, so what can they do?
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So their options are, one is to go back to war with the Houthis and to try to force them to back down militarily.
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Which didn't go so well the first time.
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Yeah, it's a very unattractive course of action for them for a lot of different reasons.
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Another option
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that they could take is to try to come to some sort of diplomatic solution with the Houthis
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and negotiate an agreement politically that gets the Houthis to back down.
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That's also unattractive because everything that their history of negotiations with the Houthis have shown is
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that this is not a group that is ready to back down easily.
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They have very maximalist demands, and those demands are only going to get bigger now
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that they feel in this position of great power and that they have the upper hand.
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So they're definitely considering that option, but it's not ideal at all either.
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And there's no guarantee that it leads to a sustainable agreement, right?
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The Houthis could decide in a year or two years, actually, we want more and it's back to war for you unless you agree to what we want.
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You know, one player we have not talked about yet is the United States.
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And I bring that up because the United States is both Saudi Arabia's most powerful ally.
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And also the U .S obviously started this whole war with Iran in the first place alongside Israel.
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So I wonder.
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Where is the United States in this moment?
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Are they helping Saudi Arabia in this moment?
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Yeah.
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So because Saudi Arabia is so reluctant to go back to war with the Houthis on its own,
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it is very keen to get support from the United States and other international partners if it takes that path.
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And we do know that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia has approached the Trump administration multiple times, including as recently as last week,
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to ask the United States to help, to ask the United States to kind of join a fight against the Houthis.
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And what did the U .S say?
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As far as we know, President Trump declined.
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We do not see any evidence on the ground of, you know, really stepped up U .S involvement.
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There is, of course, some intelligence sharing and other things that were essentially already going on.
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But the U .S is not getting involved in airstrikes.
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The U .S seems to have the mindset of, let's just leave this to Saudi Arabia to sort out.
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You know, I can imagine
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that one reason why the U .S might be hesitant to get involved is
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that the U .S is already really overstretched because they are already at war with Iran.
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But on the other hand, Saudi Arabia is a really important ally
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and they are asking for help against a militia that is backed by an enemy of the United States.
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So why isn't the U .S willing to step in?
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Yeah, so Trump has given some statements suggesting that the Houthis don't really want to fight the U .S., that they just want to fight Saudi Arabia.
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That's a little complicated
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because Saudi Arabia's oil getting out through the Bab al -Mandab has implications for global energy markets
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and therefore for the United States.
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But according to sort of his telling, look, this is a group, we already kind of fought them.
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There was a U .S airstrike campaign against the Houthis last year that was brief and ill -fated.
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Essentially, no one has found a military solution to the Houthis.
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They've gone up against these much wealthier, much more powerful foes.
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And those much wealthier, much more powerful foes have been forced to back down again and again.
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So Trump doesn't see getting involved in a war against the Houthis as a winning prospect.
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Vivian, I'm so curious, given the fact
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that you're actually on the ground in Riyadh and have been as all of this has been playing out, what does all of this pressure actually feel like?
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Like sort of how is it in the air there?
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So it's kind of a weird moment because the Houthis are attacking the kingdom right now, but it's not reaching cities like Riyadh.
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You know, it's mostly affecting cities in the kingdom south.
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So it's weird because everyone knows that we're kind of potentially on the verge of another war.
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But at the same time, you know, events are happening, conferences are being held.
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They're talking about tourism events next year.
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There's still kind of an effort to keep going and to sort of maintain the mood that everything's going to be okay.
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We're going to figure a way out of this.
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And I'm sure they're still working very hard to repair the pipeline
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and get that back up and running as soon as possible.
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Is that realistic, though?
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How fast can one repair a pipeline?
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Well, it's a mystery right now because it depends on how badly it's been damaged.
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And these are things that only a very small number of people know.
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Probably we've seen some reporting indicating that it could be a matter of weeks.
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Even that is quite a bad situation for Saudi Arabia.
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But the worst situation is the fact that no matter how quickly they repair it, as long as there is still conflict in the region
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and as long as they have foes who are still willing and able to attack the pipeline, that will remain a risk.
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So they could repair it tomorrow and have another attack the next day.
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You know, I'm reminded there was a lot of criticism after the U .S
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and Israel went to war with Iran
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that they should have taken more seriously the idea that Iran would or could shut off the Strait of Hormuz, right?
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Like, that was essentially foreseeable.
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So I guess I just wonder whether it was just as foreseeable that Saudi's oil routes would also be cut off.
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Like, I'm just wondering how predictable this latest iteration of the war was.
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I mean, I think if you were a really strategic and smart war gamer, you absolutely could have sit down and gamed this out, you know, months ago.
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I think one thing that the Gulf Arab Arab states that are American allies here, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates,
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these states always realized that they were very vulnerable if Iran were to launch major retaliatory attacks on,
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you know, United States, that they would be kind of the front lines of that.
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They have these U .S bases.
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They host these U .S troops.
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You know, they have these American companies that do business there.
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And their energy, their oil and their gas is so crucial to the world economy, that it is really just the most strategic
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and easiest way for Iran to exert pressure on a country that's very far away, the United States.
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So they've always known that they could potentially be on the front lines of something like this.
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And that's part of why a lot of Gulf leaders
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and officials were trying to prevent this war from happening in the first place.
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You know, I can't help but think, Vivian, about that man in Florida, the gas station owner that we heard from at the beginning of this episode, who's worried that high gas prices are going to go even higher.
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And obviously, that is just one factor, one consequence in this war.
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But it sounds like he and other people need to prepare for a lot more pain than we've already been seeing.
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Yeah, I mean, the fact of the matter remains is that we really still haven't seen the end of this war.
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And the longer it's going on, the more it is spiraling into these new kind of complicated consequences. So...
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Saudi Arabia had this workaround in the early months of the war
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that had masked the true cost of the war for oil and gas prices.
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That is changing now.
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And we're also seeing kind of a real new kind of snowballing of human suffering that could be happening.
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In Yemen alone, the fact
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that the country is now tilting back into this full -blown
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war could have devastating consequences for tens of millions of people
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who were already living in one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
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We're seeing kind of all over the globe, all of these consequences spiraling out from this war between the United States
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and Iran that are having really devastating impacts for the economy,
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for people's ability to afford energy and all of the goods that come from that.
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What's becoming increasingly clear is that these are not problems that are going to go away quickly.
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These are going to be complicated and they could potentially be long lasting.
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— Vivian Nireim, thank you so much.
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— Thank you for having me.
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As oil prices have surged past $100 a barrel, people around the world have taken to the streets to protest price increases and gas shortages.
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In France, fishermen clashed with police as they attempted to blockade a fuel depot.
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— In Portugal, a convoy of frustrated drivers blocked roads to a major oil refinery.
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And in Syria, where the government raised fuel prices for a second time in two weeks,
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protesters blocked a major highway with flaming tires.
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Syrian government officials said they had no choice but to raise prices because of the war.
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We'll be right back.
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Here's what else you need to know today.
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The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, the first increase in more than three years.
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That increase is a major step by the Central Bank's chairman, Kevin Warsh, to combat inflation, which Warsh has said has been too high for too long.
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And President Trump on Wednesday threatened retribution against the European Union's invitation to Canada to become a, quote, associate member of the bloc,
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a move that shows how intent America's traditional allies are on pursuing a more stable future by binding together.
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If it's a good intention, that's fine.
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If it's a bad intention, we'll put very heavy tariffs on Europe.
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The president said the move could be perceived as a, quote, hostile act.
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Today's episode was produced by Jessica Chung, Olivia Natt, and Anna Foley, with help from Eric Krupke.
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It was edited by Maria Byrne and Annie Minoff, with help from Michael Benoit.
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It contains music by Dan Powell, Marianne Lozano, Rowan Nemisto, and Pat McCusker.
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It was engineered by Chris Wood.
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Our theme music is by Wonderly.
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And special thanks to Ben Hubbard.
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That's it for The Daily.
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I'm Rachel Abrams.
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See you tomorrow.
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Thank you.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Why Gas Prices Just Keep Going Up”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: saudi, Houthi, arabia, oil, Iran. Questo video contiene 323 frasi e 4177 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 23:46. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 176 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| strait sostantivo | /stɹeɪt/ | stretto |
| workaround sostantivo | /ˈwɜːk.əɹaʊnd/ | workaround |
| consequence sostantivo | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | conseguenza |
| blockade sostantivo | /blɑˈkeɪd/ | blocco |
| alley sostantivo | /ˈæl.i/ | vicolo, calle |
| ally sostantivo | /ˈæl.aɪ/ | alleato, alleata |
| devastate verbo | /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/ | devastare |
| foreseeable aggettivo | /fɔɹˈsi.ə.bəl/ | prevedibile |
| stalemate sostantivo | /ˈsteɪlmeɪt/ | stallo |
| unattractive aggettivo | sconveniente | |
| choke verbo | /t͡ʃoʊk/ | soffocare |
| seize verbo | /ˈsiːz/ | prendere, afferrare |
| spiral sostantivo | /ˈspaɪɹəl/ | spirale |
| militia sostantivo | /məˈlɪʃə/ | milizia |
| threaten verbo | /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/ | minacciare, impaurire |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| back down verbo | cedere | |
| take over verbo | usurpare | |
| carry out verbo | /ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/ | compiere, realizzare |
| fight back verbo | /faɪt bæk/ | difendersi, contrastare |
| figure out verbo | scoprire, rendersi conto | |
| go away verbo | partire, andarsene | |
| go up verbo | salire | |
| play out verbo | svolgere |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corso | has been dragging · has been relying · has been playing |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | hasn't really been talked · have been · has sent |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | was priced · been talked · being felt |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | Hormuz, which is · Houthis, which are |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 46 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, we're, they're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, aftermath /ˈæf.tɚˌmæθ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: militia /məˈlɪʃə/, escalation /ˌɛs.kəˈleɪ.ʃən/, fisherman /ˈfɪʃ.ɚ.mən/, implication /ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/, negotiation /nɪˌɡəʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: foreseeable /fɔɹˈsi.ə.bəl/, diversify /daɪˈvɝ.sə.faɪ/, escalation /ˌɛs.kəˈleɪ.ʃən/, eventuality /ɪˌvɛntjuˈælɪti/, longevity /lɒnˈd͡ʒɛv.ɪ.ti/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: humanitarian /hjuˌmæ.nəˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/, hostile /ˈhɑstəl/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: strait /stɹeɪt/, workaround /ˈwɜːk.əɹaʊnd/, consequence /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/, escalate /ˈɛs.kə.leɪt/, blockade /blɑˈkeɪd/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: gallon /ˈɡælən/, alley /ˈæl.i/, ally /ˈæl.aɪ/, backer /ˈbækɚ/, disastrous /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come strait, workaround, consequence.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.